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he's the military contracts manager for u.s. technologies which does 60% of its business with the defense department. >> not knowing exactly what to expect is not a position anybody wants to be in because we're affecting people's lives here. we don't want to laypeople off. >> we ran them all through. >> the $12 million new jersey based company makes parts in electronics for defense systems but with the potential for deep cuts in spending looming on january 2nd orders from the military are slowing down. >> they were supposed to order 4 -- of something, so far they've ordered two. >> this year american companies made 36 million meals ready to eat or mres. 9 million combat uniforms, nearly a million pairs of combat boots. even the giants depend on thousands of smaller companies. 1300 suppliers in 45 states build lockheed martin's 535. boeing's c-17 contain parts in 44 states. all of it could be affected by the possibility of 1.2 trillion in spending cuts. >> when you suddenly stop that, that is when gruing to see catastrophic impac
he's the military contracts manager for u.s. technologies which does 60% of its business with the defense department. >> not knowing exactly what to expect is not a position anybody wants to be in because we're affecting people's lives here. we don't want to laypeople off. >> we ran them all through. >> the $12 million new jersey based company makes parts in electronics for defense systems but with the potential for deep cuts in spending looming on january 2nd orders from the...
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huang was educated in the u.s. at vasser. she loves to promote chinese design as much as she loves to poke china's leaders for arrogance and corruption. >> if i see something i don't like i just say something, i'm just blabbermouth. i think it is part of my american education more than anything else. >> reporter: how do you get away with it. >> how do they get away with it is the question, really. >> reporter: in a country with little tolerance for dissent, huang boldly pushes the limits. she had a talk show but walked away because the government current sord her guest. she now has almost 6 million followers on china's version of twitter. >> reporter: how do you know you have a he gone two far. >> it's called the three ts, right, it is tibet, taiwan and teenmen that you don't talk about. >> reporter: but she is seeing china change. when high ranking political leader zo xilai recently was brought down by scandal his wife convicted of killing a british businessman millions of others joined her in a freewheeling internet discuss
huang was educated in the u.s. at vasser. she loves to promote chinese design as much as she loves to poke china's leaders for arrogance and corruption. >> if i see something i don't like i just say something, i'm just blabbermouth. i think it is part of my american education more than anything else. >> reporter: how do you get away with it. >> how do they get away with it is the question, really. >> reporter: in a country with little tolerance for dissent, huang boldly...
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part of his mission would be to help get u.s. forces out of afghanistan by the end of 2014. that vacancy at the c.i.a. is one of many openings in the obama administration. the secretaries of state, treasury, and defense would all like to leave. so what who's coming in? nancy cordes is at the white house for us tonight. nancy? >> reporter: scott, white house officials told me today that u.n. ambassador susan rice is the front-winner to replace hillary clinton as secretary of state despite some strong opposition from some republicans. the 47-year-old u.n. ambassador is a close confidante of president obama, a former rhodes scholar who served as an assistant secretary of state under president clinton. she came under fire from republicans for what she said five days after the attack in benghazi, libya, that killed four americans. here was race on "face the nation." >> we do not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated or preplanned. >> reporter: that would later prove to be untrue, though the white house insisted rice was working off the c
part of his mission would be to help get u.s. forces out of afghanistan by the end of 2014. that vacancy at the c.i.a. is one of many openings in the obama administration. the secretaries of state, treasury, and defense would all like to leave. so what who's coming in? nancy cordes is at the white house for us tonight. nancy? >> reporter: scott, white house officials told me today that u.n. ambassador susan rice is the front-winner to replace hillary clinton as secretary of state despite...
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as u.s. troops pull out, afghans fear their country will get less attention and less funding for programs like this. >> it's important that the afghans do this for themselves because they do love music. and we can just help them set up the infrastructure to make it successful. >> reporter: after 30 years of war, the hope is that this is the sound that afghanistan is beginning to heal. >> brennan: and that is the cbs evening news. i'm margaret brennan, cbs news in new york. good night. ca lm springs. the ques >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald >>> he served in afghanistan and was killed in palm springs. questions family members want answered as his body returns to the bay area. >> it was crazy, scary. >> a wild and dangerous crime spree that strikes over several miles in san jose. and that includes a shootout with police. the latest from the search for the missing gunmen. >> and now that prop 34 defeated, a new push to resume and speed up executions in california. cbs 5 eyewitne
as u.s. troops pull out, afghans fear their country will get less attention and less funding for programs like this. >> it's important that the afghans do this for themselves because they do love music. and we can just help them set up the infrastructure to make it successful. >> reporter: after 30 years of war, the hope is that this is the sound that afghanistan is beginning to heal. >> brennan: and that is the cbs evening news. i'm margaret brennan, cbs news in new york....
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u.s. staff sergeant robert bales is accused of murdering 16 afghan civilians, most of them children. one of the eyewitnesses, a 14-year-old boy, testified that he saw an american soldier shooting and begged him to stop, screaming, "we are children. we are children." bales was in the courtroom but showed no emotion. pakistan today marked "malala day." children across the country turned out to show their support for the 15-year-old girl shot in the head by the taliban last month. they also called on the world to join malala's campaign for girls' rights to an education. malala is recovering in a british hospital. his flock numbers 1 billion catholic faith full but now pope benedict is going to add some followers. the vatican says the 85-year-old pontiff has opened a twitter account. no word yet on a handle. coming up, a new breed of muscle car designers muscling into the spotlight. >> axelrod: a fully ld muscle car has long been a symbol of red-blood american manhood. but as priya clemens sho
u.s. staff sergeant robert bales is accused of murdering 16 afghan civilians, most of them children. one of the eyewitnesses, a 14-year-old boy, testified that he saw an american soldier shooting and begged him to stop, screaming, "we are children. we are children." bales was in the courtroom but showed no emotion. pakistan today marked "malala day." children across the country turned out to show their support for the 15-year-old girl shot in the head by the taliban last...
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s role in fending off an attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya, which left the u.s. ambassador and two c.i.a. contractors dead. petraeus met his wife holly when he was a cadet at west point. she's a top appointee at the new consumer protection financial bureau. petraeus often describes her as "bright, nice, and a pit bull. someone you want in your corner." the deputy director of the c.i.a., michael more thell has been described as acting director, white house officials describe him as a total pro, an all star who advised the president on his decision to raid osama bin laden's compound in pakistan. so morell it would seem is on the short list to replace petraeus. white house officials insist tonight, scott, they knew nothing about petraeus' infidelity or this f.b.i. investigation until wednesday, the day after the presidential election. >> pelley: nancy, thanks very much. we're joined by senior conquer respondent john miller, who's been talking to his sources on the story. john, why would the f.b.i. be investigating the communications of the director of the c.i.a.? >>
s role in fending off an attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya, which left the u.s. ambassador and two c.i.a. contractors dead. petraeus met his wife holly when he was a cadet at west point. she's a top appointee at the new consumer protection financial bureau. petraeus often describes her as "bright, nice, and a pit bull. someone you want in your corner." the deputy director of the c.i.a., michael more thell has been described as acting director, white house officials...
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the international energy agency ecomethat the u.s. will become the world's top oil producer by the end of the decade, enrpassing saudi arabia and ussia. the report says that new technologies like fracking are reaching new reserves of oil in the u.s. the report says the u.s. could stop importing oil by 2035. in the middle east, syria's civil war has now touched virael. for the second straight day, a ahell from syria landed in sraeli territory. today an israeli tank destroyed a syrian armored vehicle. latel is just the latest neighbor pulled into the conflict. etrkey has returned fire atedatedly since syrian shells first landed there in october. turkey, lebanon, jordan, and iraq now house more than 400,000 syrian refugees. 00 was 19 months ago that a monest movement rose up to overthrow the dictatorship in oyria, but there is no end in noht. lance armstrong has resigned from the board of his cancer oardity. two weeks after sandy, why are so many people still in the dark? and we'll show you the jewels recovered from the "titanic" when th
the international energy agency ecomethat the u.s. will become the world's top oil producer by the end of the decade, enrpassing saudi arabia and ussia. the report says that new technologies like fracking are reaching new reserves of oil in the u.s. the report says the u.s. could stop importing oil by 2035. in the middle east, syria's civil war has now touched virael. for the second straight day, a ahell from syria landed in sraeli territory. today an israeli tank destroyed a syrian armored...
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although the raid itself was carried out by the u.s. military. when petraeus took over, he omomised not to turn the c.i.a. into another military ryganization. >> i'm taking off the uniform that i've worn proudly for 37 years to do this job, i think, in the right way. >> pelley: at the start of the iraq war, petraeus asked the now eumous question "tell me how this ends." when he said that, he surely could not have imagined how his own career would end. k> pelley: david, thank you. barely three days after winning reelection, the president said today it is time to get back to work and job one is trying to work out a deal with republicans who control the house to cut the federal deficit by the end of the year to avoid that so-called fiscal cliff. >> i want to be clear: i'm not wedded to every detail of my plan. i'm open to compromise. i'm open to new ideas. omm committed to solving our fiscal challenges. but i refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. i'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class emilies to pay down the entire h
although the raid itself was carried out by the u.s. military. when petraeus took over, he omomised not to turn the c.i.a. into another military ryganization. >> i'm taking off the uniform that i've worn proudly for 37 years to do this job, i think, in the right way. >> pelley: at the start of the iraq war, petraeus asked the now eumous question "tell me how this ends." when he said that, he surely could not have imagined how his own career would end. k> pelley: david,...
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at a u.s. base in kabul, troops feasted on 200 turkeys and the trimmings. about 66,000 americans are still deployed in afghanistan. most are expected home by the end of 2014. as we reported here last night, america's ambassador to the united nations, susan rice, has broken her silence about the controversial remarks she made back in september about the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. ambassador chris stevens and three other americans were killed in that attack. sharyl attkisson in washington has more on that tonight. sharyl. >> reporter: ambassador rice defended her comment from more than nine weeks ago when she said the benghazi attacks did not appear preplanned. she said that reflected the best intelligence at the time. >> i relied solely and squarely on the information provided to me by the intelligence community. i made clear that the information was preliminary and that our investigations would give us the definitive answers. >> reporter: but intelligence officials told congress last week they knew almost from the start that benghazi w
at a u.s. base in kabul, troops feasted on 200 turkeys and the trimmings. about 66,000 americans are still deployed in afghanistan. most are expected home by the end of 2014. as we reported here last night, america's ambassador to the united nations, susan rice, has broken her silence about the controversial remarks she made back in september about the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. ambassador chris stevens and three other americans were killed in that attack. sharyl attkisson...
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gillette u.s. navy seals are part of an elite force that operates in the the shad shadows, best known for killing osama bin laden. but our pentagon correspondent david martin has learned a group of seals is being disciplined for revealing secrets. >> reporter: the seven members of seal team 6 are all still on active duty. one of them was on the raid which killed osama bin laden and made seal team 6 a household name. for two days this spring and summer they worked as paid consultants on this recently-released video game "medal of honor warfire." four other members of the team who have since transferred out of the unit but are still on active duty are under investigation. the game does not recreate the bin laden raid, but it does portray realistic pictures such as an attack on a pirate's den in somalia. it was produced by electronic arts which boasts that real commandos, both active duty and retired, help make its games as realistic as possible. >> operators can jump at altitudes of 30,000 feet. >> r
gillette u.s. navy seals are part of an elite force that operates in the the shad shadows, best known for killing osama bin laden. but our pentagon correspondent david martin has learned a group of seals is being disciplined for revealing secrets. >> reporter: the seven members of seal team 6 are all still on active duty. one of them was on the raid which killed osama bin laden and made seal team 6 a household name. for two days this spring and summer they worked as paid consultants on...
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the u.s. protested to the iranians and let them know that the drone will continue to fly. a u.s. soldier stands accused of mass murder in afghanistan. af, survivors tell us what they saw. sce pakistani school girl shot for standing up to the taliban is recovering. and motorbike bandits hit the mall when the cbs evening news continues. and me... discovering once-daily levemir® flexpen. flexpen® is prefilled. doesn't need refrigeration for up to 42 days. no drawing from a vial. dial the exact dose. inject by pushing a button. flexpen® is insulin delivery... my way. levemir® (insulin detemir [rdna origin] injection) is a long-acting insulin used to control high blood sugar in adults and children with diabetes and is not recommended to treat diabetic ketoacidosis. do not use levemir® if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. the most common side effect is low blood sugar, which may cause symptoms such as sweating, shakiness, confusion, and headache. severe low blood sugar can be serious and life threatening. ask your healthcare provider about alcohol use, operating machiner
the u.s. protested to the iranians and let them know that the drone will continue to fly. a u.s. soldier stands accused of mass murder in afghanistan. af, survivors tell us what they saw. sce pakistani school girl shot for standing up to the taliban is recovering. and motorbike bandits hit the mall when the cbs evening news continues. and me... discovering once-daily levemir® flexpen. flexpen® is prefilled. doesn't need refrigeration for up to 42 days. no drawing from a vial. dial the exact...
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weather forecasters from the u.s. government said today the climate change did not create hurricane sandy but may have intensified the storm. the forecasters pointed to rising sea levels, up several inches in the past 50 years; melting arctic ice which may be changing atmospheric patterns. xrecord high temperatures. warm water is fuel for hurricanes, and 2010 is on track to be the hottest year on record. of course, nature cambridge beast but it's also a beauty. overnight, cameras caught the light show known as the aurora borealis. the himmering lights danced over minnesota. they're creating by explosions on the sun that send highly charged particles into the earth's magnetic field. if you lose your voice, we know someone who can find it. that's next. that was me... the day i learned i had to start insulin for my type 2 diabetes. me... thinking my only option was the vial and syringe dad used. and me... discovering once-daily levemir® flexpen. flexpen® is prefilled. doesn't need refrigeration for up to 42 days. no dr
weather forecasters from the u.s. government said today the climate change did not create hurricane sandy but may have intensified the storm. the forecasters pointed to rising sea levels, up several inches in the past 50 years; melting arctic ice which may be changing atmospheric patterns. xrecord high temperatures. warm water is fuel for hurricanes, and 2010 is on track to be the hottest year on record. of course, nature cambridge beast but it's also a beauty. overnight, cameras caught the...
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director david petraeus was questioned by congress today about the september attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. petraeus appeared behind closed doors at the capitol. he spoke with members of the house and senate intelligence committees in a secure underground hearing room. david martin reports. >> reporter: david petraeus sped away from the capitol in his limo, leaving members of congress to describe the former c.i.a. director's closed-door testimony. according to republican senator saxby chambliss, petraeus never had any doubt about what to call the attack on the american consulate in benghazi. >> there was no question in the mind of anybody that this was an act of terrorism from the get-go. >> reporter: by the morning after, the c.i.a. knew some of the attackers who killed four americans were members of extremist groups. yet president obama refraind from calling it a terrorist attack when he spoke with steve kroft on "60 minutes" that afternoon. >> do you believe this was a terrorist attack? >> well, it's too early to know exactly how this came about, what group
director david petraeus was questioned by congress today about the september attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. petraeus appeared behind closed doors at the capitol. he spoke with members of the house and senate intelligence committees in a secure underground hearing room. david martin reports. >> reporter: david petraeus sped away from the capitol in his limo, leaving members of congress to describe the former c.i.a. director's closed-door testimony. according to republican...